by Susan | Dec 18, 2017 | Monuments
This Tribute to Human Rights, by Mariano González Beltrán, was dedicated on December 15, 2004 and is located in the Plaza de Santo Domingo. Composed of numerous figures cast in bronze and arranged in a circle, it represents “a society that lives in harmony, in...
by Susan | Dec 11, 2017 | Monuments
On December 10, 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations, which held its fifth General Assembly at the Palais de Chaillot, in Paris. In 1985, at the entrance of the forecourt, an engraved slab was dedicated and the esplanade was...
by Susan | Dec 4, 2017 | Monuments
Commissioned by the city, artists Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz described their design as a Gegen-Denkmal––a countermonument. They rejected the city of Hamburg’s offer to place it in a park and instead constructed it in a pedestrian shopping mall in the...
by Susan | Nov 27, 2017 | Monuments
It is perhaps a stretch to call the Teddy Roosevelt memorial a peace monument, as the only reference to peace on the four slabs that are engraved with his quotations falls not on the side of peace. “If I must chose between righteousness and peace, I chose...
by Susan | Nov 20, 2017 | Monuments
At a peaceCENTER’s meeting last week we were talking about the postal service and Andy quoted this poem, engraved on the pediments of the old District of Columbia Post office, now the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum, at N. Capitol & Massachusetts...
by Susan | Nov 13, 2017 | Monuments
The Carn Heddwch (Peace Cairn) was constructed on Mynydd Llanfihangel Rhos y Corn, Carmarthenshire, in the Autumn of 2007. It has the word peace carved in four languages: Arabic, English, Hebrew and Welsh on different sides of the monument. The children of Brechfa...
